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The original source code includes a CD-KEY protection mechanism to avoid piracy. Even if it is trivial to remove this protection once the sources are available, we encourage you not to do so as a sign of respect for all the great work they do at ID Software. Just remember this: if we play nice, in a few years they will open source Rage's engine . Please, buy the original game.

When you buy the original game you will receive a "key". Place it in the following file:

That is what I already tried, but did not work.

So I would need to compile and take out the protection part.

To me it looks the steam keys are different form the ones on a jewelcase.

The frustrating part is as usual, I would probably not have this issue if I had a pirated doom 3....

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I recommend that you use the dhewm3 code which it's greatly improved over the official binary. Exact compiling instructions are on github. Note that I do not condone piracy, but removing the protection mechanism is truly trivial and you don't even need programming skills - start by grep'ing for "*******" (guess!) and use your basic knowledge of the English language. That being said, you should make sure that you typed in the cdkey correctly - it should be 18 characters long and not contain any spaces or dashes. If you still have problems, then you're better off talking to id's support team than random forum members.

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I recommend that you use the dhewm3 code which it's greatly improved over the official binary. Exact compiling instructions are on github. Note that I do not condone piracy, but removing the protection mechanism is truly trivial and you don't even need programming skills - start by grep'ing for "*******" (guess!) and use your basic knowledge of the English language. That being said, you should make sure that you typed in the cdkey correctly - it should be 18 characters long and not contain any spaces or dashes. If you still have problems, then you're better off talking to id's support team than random forum members.

I have bought Doom 3 and roe through steam.

The two keys I did find, steam\steam apps\common\doom 3 ( or something like that ) are only 16 characters long.
I tried many times both keys, but the result is the same.

I suspected that to be the problem, but why the keys in steam differ, from the ones on the jewelcases, is beyond me.